These people should not be treated with respect, because they are the REASON that we are in such a seriously bad situation right now. If we could get at least some of these people to realize the importance of not being a complete tool, we can get the country back on track.
A Newsweek poll released last week found 41 percent of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the September 11 attacks, though no such connection has been found.
--reuters
I hadn't realized it was still THIS bad, how can so many Americans still be that ignorant about current events? How can so many people not know, and still have the audacity to speak without any conceived moral ambiguity?
Renae Simpson, vacationing on the Texas resort of South Padre Island, said she and her husband Randy are Democrats, but totally support the war.
"We went in there with open eyes knowing it would not be easy," said Simpson.
"They came over here on our land and took down the twin towers. People forget that," Randy, a Vietnam veteran, added.
http://www.reuters.com/...
First of all she is lying about having "open eyes," because if she did she and her husband would know by now that Saddam had nothing do with 9/11... but she CLAIMS that she is knowledgeable and that she pays attention, as she sits on the beach not doing a god damn thing but taking up space...
It's one thing to be pro-war for reasons having nothing to do with 9/11 and fighting terrorism... but it's quite another thing to still be for this war based on the false-perception pushed by this Administration. This means that on 9/11 and for about 2 years or so these people were "paying attention," or in other words "listening to the president and being good patriotic Americans lets kill those sandy bastards and throw them to the piranhas." But since then have not given any of it a second thought, they BLINDLY believe whatever it is the person in power is telling them... they have no sense of history, which should be particularly embarrassing for someone like Randy the Vietnam Vet. I wonder if he volunteered for that war...
It seems that most Americans are ignorantly selfish - unaware of that power unconsciously guiding their decision making... and until they really start to hurt personally due to the actions of this administration will likely never feel like the president is doing any wrong, because they are doing so good - or, at least, aren't doing badly enough to realize whose to blame yet.
41% is way too big of a number for me, and hopefully it angers you -- I for one will be an intolerant dick to anyone who still purports that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, who doesn't think it's important to understand the difference between sunni and shiite, a bathist and al-qaeda member, or thinks that we've already caught and hung Osama bin Laden... I'm just going to be a huge asshole to that person. I'm going to do what I can to make them feel like the biggest moron in the room so that hopefully they will go home and pick up the news paper. It will be the greatest thing anyone could ever do to them, make them FEEL like the moron that they don't yet realize they are being.
And you should do the same.